Connecticut western news., 1887-07-27
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

There were two hundred delegates to the second annual convention of the National he- tail Shoe Dealers Association at Chicago. -Chicago's lake ''bum-b boats" notorious for harboring iniquity, are to be suppressed.
 The Chinese of Worcester, Mass, have united to resist the efforts of the Board of Health to eject two of tEeir number from a cellar under the Post Office, and have secured aid from New York. The Board of Health pronounces the place unfit for habitation.
 There is great mortality among the chil- dren in Pittsburg and Alleghany.
 -Lorenz Peterson, Chicago machinist, while intoxicated, dragged his wife to the roof of the four-story building where they re- side and attempted to throw her of. She, however, maintained her hold until her cries brought the neighbors to her rescue.
 The Gambrinus Assembly of the Knights or Labor in Milwaukee are seeding from the order because of its temperance principles.
 The State Paymaster of Missouri is now in St. Louis paying troops for services rend- cred during the great strike of 1SSo.
 Chicago has invited President Cleveland to be the city's guest during his Western trip.
 A Believers meeting for Bible study was opened at Niagara-on-t the-Lake, Ont. large number of persons attended.
 Arrangements have been completed for laying the corner stone of the Bennington Battle Monument August 10. The Governors of several States and Representatives of the United States Government will be present.
 The chinch bugs are said to be gaining ground in Illinois.
 A Northern Pacific employee offered two tons of coal for sale to Moorhead mill. Sus- picion was aroused, and investigation led to the employees arrest. The investigation dis closed systematic larceny from the company, and implicated others.
 -Orangemen in Toronto are excited over the discharge of members absent from duty on July 12.
 -Prohibitionists wrecked saloon in Will hnson, Ind.
 The fish in the river at Pekin, H., are dy- ing at an alarming rate and are corded up on the banks in wagon loads. The cause is said to be low and impure water. The slops from the Peoria distilleries poison the water as far as the dam, distance of eleven miles, as fish are dead on the bank fer that distance.
 Large forest fires ragged in Niagara county N. Y., for more than 8 week. One hundred acres of woodland in the vicinity of Heseroad were burned over. The fire was extinguished by heavy rains. The damage cannot be esti- mated, but will be very large.
 -Edison's glassblowers, to the number of 25, refuse to submit to Q reduced scale of prices for their labor.
 The first six bales of new Texas cotton were received at New Orleans.
 Missouri and Eastern Kansas report drought enough to ruin corn crops.
 -Uriel Crocker the oldest of New England s publishers, is dead. He was born in 1796
 San Francisco people want Government aid towards the laying of cables to the South ern Pacific Islands and to Australia.
 -Litchfeld, Conn.,, the birthplace of Henry Ward Beecher, held services in his memory.
 Kentucky will have light tobacco crop.
 The Hon. George A. Dicky, Clerk of the New Hampshire House. has received letter from MT. Gladstone expressing thanks Tor the resolutions complimentary to hm recently passed by the New Hampshire Legis- lature.
 John Tyler, son of the late President Ty Ter, has been stricken with paralysis.
 The Columbia River salmon crop will show shortage of 125, 900 cases this year. The river is being fished out. There is no shortage in the Alaskan waters. Thesnpply there is prac- tically inexhaustable. The price of salmon has advanced from 75c. to $1 per case.
 -Forty-five cases of sunstroke occurred in one day at Cincinnati, of which six were fatal.
 Andrew Williams and Robert West were killed and Robert Williams, brother of the first named, fatally injured by tree falling on their buggy fifteen miles south of Terre Haute, Ind, as they were returning from 8 funeral.
 Texas herders are driving their cattle back to that State because of low prices ln North ern markets.
 Mrs. A. Little of Janesville, Wis, mem- Der of the Salvation Army, is charged with in human treatment of her infant children, and they have been taken from her by the police Her husband was driven from home by her recently. She is believed to be crazed by re- hgious excitement.
 Cows wrecked whole train of eight cars and a locomotive at Baden, Ont, but only one man was killed.
 Charles Sanders, 8 lad of 10 years, is con fined in coal mine at Grand Junction, Greene County, Ia., with very slight hope of his re- coyery. He was at work with five miners when the water broke in from an old shaft All fled, but Sanders was left behind and the rapidly rising water cut off his only means of exit. Pumps have been kept at work and every pos sible effort is being made to save his life. The water is being gradually lowered, but 1t IS hardly probable Sanders will be found alive.
 Francis Marion Kellar, of St. Louis, is glad he is in jail, for he is threatened with lynch ing for beating his wife to death. The cause of his being offended is stated as the fact that she and her growing family of children had twelve fingers and twelve toes.
 Jay Stone, Chief of the Correspondence Division of the War Department, has resigned to accept the position of Secretary of the Engineer Board of Notifications at New York.
 "A terrible storm swept over the vicinity of Elizabeth, Wirt County, w. Va., doing an inn mense amount of damage. Crops of all kinds were destroyed, barns, houses and mills wash ed away or demolished by the wind, and a number of people were badly injured. The casualties were the result of panic in the audience viewing Whites circus, which was at Elizabeth. The tent was blown entirely away, and the crush which resulted among the strug- gling mass of people was terrible.
 Private Lower of the old Pennsylvania Bucktails has received his medal for merito- ous services during the war.
 The officers of the United States cruiser Atlanta deny that her guns are too heavy to be fired on vessel of her size, but say that with proper carriages they can be fired with out difficulty, the present carriages being too light.
 The reports of yellow fever existing at Memphis are denied by private telegrams from that city.
 Mrs. Swope, white woman, plunged a knife into the abdomen of Mrs. Sarah Dawson, a colored laundress, at the Cartwright Hotel, Summitville, Ind, killing her instantly. Mrs. Swope was displeased with some remarks the victim had made.
 The establishment of J. S. Young & Son for the prepartion of bark extracts used in the manufacture of tobacco, at Denmead's Wharf Canton Md, was burned. Loss, S225, 900.
 As dozen or fifteen berry pickers in camp near Cascade Junction, Mich., were seated around a camp fire some one, desiring to drive the party away, came mp in the darkness and threw package of loaded cartridges into the fire. A terrific explosion followed, the bullets and pieces of shell flying in all directions. Three members of the party were seriously wounded.
 -Col. Robinson, ex-consul to Madagascar, was fatally hurt by runaway horse at Chip pewa Falls, Wis. T. F. Condit, prominent attorney, was with him, and was also badly hurt,
 Alfred Rhodus, who was accused of opium smuggling in San Francisco, has been dis charged He now threatens to expose band of rich smugglers who, he says, brought the charges against him in order to get him out ot the way.
 TWO SEALERS SrILED. An American and a British Cap.
 tain Seized by the Rush.